Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eater's for the 29th of October, 24.

It's nearly Halloween.

You know what that means?

It's nearly Christmas.

It's terrible.

Terrible news for anyone who's got kids.

You've got to spend loads of money.

I don't like Halloween.

It's begging, isn't it?

It's begging.

What, Halloween?

Yeah.

No, Halloween's a lot more social.

It's nice taking the kids around

and everyone gives them a sweet

and they have to take all the sweets off them so they're running around on the sugar high. You can give them free investment advice if you're I think it's big. I don't like

it. Like guilt and bonds. Goodbye. I don't get also I'd like to point out I don't get drunk at

Christmas. I think it's un-Christmassy to get drunk at Christmas. It seems in poor taste.

If you're with your family, you don't need to get drunk, surely, unless you're, you know, things are tough. Well, conversely, if you're with your family, maybe you do.

Anyway, I'm doing by Josh and Dan, and today we're going to be talking about how the Labour Party

has decided to skip the middleman and just physically punch the hell out of you.

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